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i can has an abby!
met up with polutrope this yesterday afternoon, which was awesome: we spent a good two hours wandering the holiday market at union square (in the freezing rain, which was less awesome). i bought a couple of sweet scarves (2 for $20!) in a beautiful deep pink & yellow-flecked green; a perfectly palm-sized, inexplicably turquoise cat; and a pair of earrings ( Read more... ) -
a deep post full of momentous self-discovery
today was one of those rare non-cashwrap days that i cherish so. *blissful sigh* also i am reading robertson davies’ cornish trilogy (the rebel angels, what’s bred in the bone & the lyre of orpheus, which my edition has combined into one volume). it is entirely fabulous, & i cannot believe i didn’t discover it sooner.
and with my legs stretched ( Read more... ) -
books, and more books
if I posted abt LJ on Facebook, my status would be "had to go back to skip=280 on her friendslist"; I don't, though, so I'm marking the occasion here. come to my arms, my beamish internet!
it has been... an ungodly amt of time since my last confession post, & I actually refuse to check how much. recent happenings include my becoming an employee of ( Read more... ) -
grammar
Okay, so clearly I know that capitalization is cliche and grammar is going that way too, but can we just get a few things straight?
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AMOUNT of cereal, NUMBER of bowls of cereal: if it comes in separate, countable units, use number. Otherwise, yes, fine, you can use amount.
Along the same lines, my friend Abby drinks LESS coffee than I do, but I ( Read more... ) -
le bleu de toute l'immensité
am in the dining hall: the coffee leaves something to be desired, but ice, milk & a little splenda have done wonders, although it still pales besides the starbucks version from this morning.
cantabrigian weather continues to be bizarrely, ridiculously glorious; having gotten used to rowing in the freezing cold & all varieties of precipitation, i'm ( Read more... ) -
deercula!
ugh it is so hot, dudes. wtf.
on the bright side, lab today for my dinosaurs class consisted of going to the natural history museum. they had stuffed things -- which is Frowned Upon nowadays, i know, but was nevertheless super-fun -- including a little deer with fangs! yeah, that's right, i said FANGS. :D
and then i went to the gift shop and ( Read more... ) -
summon all your patience for the summer still to come
ugh so this is the third of three lovely days here in cambridge, and i am so totally in summer mode i can't even tell you. i am making for starbucks asap -- with little zombie arms, zomg! -- for a venti iced sweetened cafe con leche, which takes a ridiculously long time both to type and to say but warms -- or maybe cools, haha -- the cockles of my ( Read more... ) -
a painful tingling like pins and needles
in the last twelve hours i have eaten an entire bag of kettlecorn and almost an entire box of pop'ems; i wrote "pox of pop'ems" to begin with, which seemed appropriate. dining halls, reopen! for i am lost without you. in my defense, i have had practice twice a day all week-three times on monday and wednesday-but i'm not sure that cancels out the ( Read more... ) -
paradigm: evening
roommate’s brother j. here, to stay for the next three days, i believe. this slightly awkward, as always when people one tends to monopolize are otherwise occupied, and made more so by brother’s attractiveness. why, oh why, do i have such a thing for boys who are both skinnier and more feminine than me? i do not mean, mind you, to suggest that i ( Read more... ) -
ahaha random.
i never really know what to post about anymore. clothes, maybe? clothes.
so this story starts with crew, as everything does these days: as a follow-up to the days and days of torrential rain we've been having, it snowed today. cory, fearless leader, decided we would row anyway. not, admittedly, that i really object to this: rowing > erging by a ( Read more... )